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The University of Melbourne’s Visualise Your Thesis competition (VYT) challenges graduate researchers to come up with an “elevator pitch”, in the form of a succinct and attractive audio-visual, digital object to distil the central theme of their research.
The Open Library of Humanities has demonstrated a model for high-quality open access publishing, without Article Processing Charges. We asked Chief Executive Officer Martin Eve whether the Library could serve as inspiration for Learned Societies in a post-Plan S world.
Will authors exercise their market power to put downward pressure on article processing charges?
Nothing burdens the heart of a journal editor more than rejecting an article. Partly, this is because you know you're giving someone…
Our research suggests that the theory that conservatives and liberals respond differently to threats isn't actually true.
The world's largest study into how people around the world think and feel about science and major health challenges.
Swiss university has signed San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, which says academics should not be judged on the journals they publish in
The goal of the Open Science Graphs Interest Group (OSG IG) is to build on the outcomes and broaden the challenges of the Data Description Registry Interoperability (DDRI) and Scholarly Link Exchange (Scholix) RDA Working Groups to investigate the open issues and identify solutions towards achieving interoperability between services and information models of Open Science Graph initiatives.
Interactive and reproducible repositories powered by Zenodo and Binder.
The public pays taxes to support research; they should be able to access the results
Canada’s top universities and research institutes spent $5.7 billion on research and development (R&D), but generated less than $75 million from licensing their innovations in 2017. That’s an average return on investment of 1.3 per cent.
Academic flying is often justified on the basis that international conferences and travel are important to the production of new knowledge. However, there is no clear relationship between the amount of travel undertaken by academics and the quality of their research.
Berlin-based academic network faces court action in US and Germany, and lost more than €12 million (£10.7 million) in 2017, accounts show.
A Dutch engineering university is taking radical action to increase its share of female academics by opening job vacancies to women only.
A comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of Computer Science literature reveals that, if current trends continue, parity between the number of male and female authors will not be reached in this century.
Researchers can see at a glance the rules they’ll need to follow if they submit to a particular journal.
Open access publishing still profits publishers, with little added value for researchers.
Article finds that bioRxiv-deposited journal articles received a sizeable citation and altmetric advantage over non-deposited articles.
By 2021, the major UK funders will have implemented policies and mandates on OA monographs, joining a growing international list.
A global Springer Nature survey of more than 2,500 academic book authors provides in-depth insights into attitudes towards open access.
Whilst a shift to gold (pay to publish) open access would deliver wider access to research, the lack of price sensitivity amongst academics presents a risk that they will be locked into a new escalating pay to publish system.
This ranking shows which institutions might be punching above their weight in producing high-quality research.
Science historian Aileen Fyfe explores how copyright has become intertwined with scholarly publishing.
The prices for open access publishing are high and are rising well beyond inflation. What has been missing from the public discussion so far is a quantitative approach to determine the actual costs of efficiently publishing a scholarly article using state-of-the-art technologies, such that informed decisions can be made as to appropriate price levels.
At Elsevier's International Center for the Study of Research, experts will examine research using metrics and other qualitative and quantitative methods.
All disciplines should follow the geosciences and demand best practice for publishing and sharing data.
Sluggish economy and unemployment could explain French pessimism about science's job-boosting power.
Study finds high Journal Impact Factor (JIF) volatilities for hundreds of journals annually due to their top-cited paper.
